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Cybersecurity in the Education Sector Remains a Challenge

Modus Create

Cybersecurity threats are pervasive and universal. However, certain industries are more vulnerable than others. A recent report by Check Point Research stated that schools and research facilities experienced an average of 1,739 cyberattacks per organization each week in July 2021. . In 2020, the University of California, San Francisco was forced to pay $1.14 million after a ransomware attack.

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Kenya’s Twiga raises $50M to scale food solutions across Africa

TechCrunch

Years ago, Americans spent most of their disposable income on food but consistent investment in retail infrastructure has changed that. Now, they only spend 6% of their household income on food and beverages. Africa still battles with this and it is not hard to see why. The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., for instance, costs about $400 in Ken

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Leadership Growth – Are You Coachable?

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership growth requires feedback and continual learning. It’s no exaggeration to say that if you’re done learning, you’re done leading. The world changes. People grow. And your influence will grow too if you invest in your leadership growth. But that growth is a choice – and one that not every leader will make. I recently spoke with a senior executive who surprised me with her vehemence.

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Chipper Cash gets $2B valuation with $150M extension round led by FTX

TechCrunch

Chipper Cash , an African cross-border payments company, has raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. The investment comes barely six months after Chipper Cash closed its first Series C round of $100 million, led by SVB Capital , the corporate venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Rethink your DevSecOps: 4 key lessons for achieving security as code

TechBeacon

A survey that the SANS Institute recently conducted of 281 organizations across the world showed that security groups are struggling to keep pace with the rapid pace of change resulting from cloud adoption and the increasing velocity of software delivery.

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DevOps Unbound: DevOps for Low-Code – Friend or Foe?

DevOps.com

Low-code development has become increasingly popular since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Low-code technologies allow organizations to build and customize fully responsive, easy-to-deploy applications with little to no coding. It accelerates digital transformation and empowers citizens developers. In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by […].

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Stanford engineers team up with Michelin-star chef to build modular restaurants

TechCrunch

While studying engineering at Stanford, Alex Kolchinski, Alex Gruebele and Max Perham met and bonded around the lack of food options on campus and the cost of the options that were there. “Even on a subsidized meal plan, it would cost $10 for lunch and more for dinner,” Kolchinski told TechCrunch. “I would sit and do my work in the dining hall just to be able to eat two lunches.

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How to Start an Infrastructure as Code Project

Dzone - DevOps

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has been a trend for many years. While some standards are being defined today, we continue to hear about new methods or tools to improve and make our lives easier by automating our daily tasks as much as possible. Fortunately or unfortunately, today, we have the choice between multiple automation tools like Ansible, Pulumi, Terraform, etc, each one having its own benefits and disadvantages.

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Singapore-based cashback platform ShopBack acquires BNPL service Hoolah

TechCrunch

ShopBack , the Rakuten-backed e-commerce loyalty platform, announced today it will acquire buy now, pay later startup Hoolah. Both companies are based in Singapore and operate in Southeast Asian markets. The deal was done in stock and cash, and terms were undisclosed. After the merger closes, ShopBack will own all of Hoolah, but the BNPL service’s brand, app and website will continue to operate as before, ShopBack founder and chief executive officer Henry Chan told TechCrunch.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Beyond IaaS: The Benefits of Using EaaS

DevOps.com

Beyond IaaS: The Benefits of Using EaaS The market for cloud infrastructure is growing at a rapid clip. Driving factors include IT’s need to cut costs, provide more services, respond faster to business needs, and enable innovation and digital transformation. For many years, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings have been both the first and most used cloud […].

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SoftBank-backed Indian logistics startup Delhivery files for $1 billion IPO

TechCrunch

Indian logistics startup Delhivery seeks to raise about $998 million in its initial public offering, the startup said in a filing with the local regulator, joining a number of other tech startups in the world’s second-largest internet market to explore the public markets. The 10-year-old startup plans to issue new shares worth $669 million, while the rest of the capital will be utilized to buy existing shares, it said in a filing (PDF).

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What Is the Difference Between Git and GitHub?

Dzone - DevOps

Do you think GitHub is your source control? Can you install Git and GitHub on your machine? If you are looking for answers to these questions, you are in the right place. In this article, you will learn the core concepts about Git and GitHub, how they are different, and their similarities.

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Apollo.io taps $32M to make the process of B2B sales more intelligent

TechCrunch

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. Tribe Capital led the round and was joined by NewView Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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How to Use Active Storage on Rails 6.2

Dzone - DevOps

Understanding Active Storage in Rails 6.2. Active storage is an inbuilt gem in Rails that developers widely use to handle file uploads. Combined with the encrypted credentials feature in the latest releases of Rails, active storage is a safe and easy method to upload, serve, and analyze files onto cloud-based storage services as well as local storage.

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Nubank’s IPO filing gives us a peek into neobank economics

TechCrunch

As the neobanking boom has matured into a collection of large digital banks, we’re slowly getting a better picture of the economics of such business efforts. Chime was early in telling the market that it was EBTIDA positive , for example, unlike less profitable European neobanks. The upcoming Nubank IPO — technically the public offering of Nu, but we’ll just say Nubank for simplicity — provides us with far more information and detail regarding the operations of a neobank at scale, th

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What’s New in xMatters: The Ninja Release

xmatters

Get ready for something exciting coming your way! xMatters latest release, Ninja , is on the horizon and will be available in production next week. Named in honor of the classic video game Ninja Gaiden, this latest batch of xMatters updates is sure to pack a punch — pun definitely intended. . This release rolls out exciting new features like an intelligent Service Dependencies map and integrations with the broader Everbridge platform, among many other things.

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Music wearable Mictic raises $2.5M to get you shredding, scratching and strumming

TechCrunch

Switzerland-based Mictic has created a pair of wearables that turns thin air into your concert hall. Imagine a theremin without the theremin, hooked up to a clever loop station, and you’ve got the right idea. Just from the demos and descriptions, it’s the kind of startup you’d scratch your head over and talk about in the bar after a long day of CES, for it to never be heard of again.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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GraphQL’s Greatest Strength is Also its Greatest Weakness

DevOps.com

Michael Scott: Why don’t I tell you what my greatest weaknesses are? I work too hard, I care too much and sometimes I can be too invested in my job. David Wallace: Okay. And your strengths? Michael Scott: Well, my weaknesses are actually strengths. David Wallace: Oh. Yes. Very good. GraphQL is a new query […]. The post GraphQL’s Greatest Strength is Also its Greatest Weakness appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Max Q: Sierra Space, Blue Origin, Boeing and others stake out space real estate

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. It feels odd to be living in a time when companies are announcing their plans to develop commercial space stations and yet, here we are! Read on for news from Sierra Space, Blue Origin, Boeing and others on their plans for a station, called Orbital Reef. Plus this week, another space SPAC and more. Tips, opinions, criticism, thoughts?

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Top 5 Git Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Workflow

Dzone - DevOps

Becoming a Git power user is on the bucket list of every developer. Here are five Git tips that will help you level up your workflow and bring you one step closer to Git mastery. Tip #1: Modify the Previous Commit Without Changing the Commit Message. You’ve just committed your changes on your local copy with a detailed and thought-through message, but the moment you hit RETURN, you realize you forgot to add that one change that really belongs there.

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Play puts native iOS product design tool in the palm of your hand

TechCrunch

The traditional way to design for the mobile environment involves a lot of back-and-forth as developers design in one program, prototype in another and collaborate in yet a third tool. A new startup, Play, is touting itself as “the only native iOS product design tool that makes it possible to create, iterate and collaborate directly from your phone.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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7 Reasons Why the Development World is Marking Time for Angular 13?

Radixweb

A Deep Dive into the Features of Angular’s about-to-be-released V13. Currently in commission with companies ranging from start-ups to ones that feature on Fortune 500 lists, Angular has significantly impacted the choice of framework for enterprise-scale application development. But how Angular has claimed the numero-uno spot of enterprise application development given the tough competition Angular … Continue reading 7 Reasons Why the Development World is Marking Time for Angular 13?

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Equity Monday: The beginning of the end of ‘996’

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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The 3 Best Ways To Talk To Your C-Suite About Cloud Costs

CloudZero

For any company working in the cloud or using managed cloud services to create products, cloud costs represent a significant expense. If you lead an engineering team, you may have to defend your bill to your CEO or CFO.

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DataRobot Acquires decision.ai for More Actionable AI

DataRobot

Practitioners in the AI space are focused on the speed and accuracy of model predictions. But the end game for the applicability of models is not in the predictions, but the decisions they enable, and predictive models alone don’t ensure better decisions. Organizations evaluate AI projects by whether or not they help organizations make better decisions and achieve better business outcomes.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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The 3 Best Ways To Talk To Your C-Suite About Cloud Costs

CloudZero

For any company working in the cloud or using managed cloud services to create products, cloud costs represent a significant expense. If you lead an engineering team, you may have to defend your bill to your CEO or CFO.

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How to Prepare Your Website for the 2021 Giving Season

TechSoup

With nearly 30 percent of annual giving occurring in December, all nonprofit organizations should already be preparing for a successful end-of-year fundraising initiative.

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Application Containerization Vs Virtualization: How Are They Different?

Daffodil Software

Most recent conversations around making the software development lifecycle more efficient revolve majorly around two concepts, app containerization, and virtualization. Virtualization and containerization are two of the most widely implemented mechanisms for hosting and developing an application.